Re: [PATCH 3/3] Documentation: scsi: dc395x: Remove reference to 2.4 driver

[Oliver Neukum]

On 05.05.23 15:34, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Fri, 5 May 2023, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:

> > Would it make a difference if someone does run that? Were you planning to
> > delete the source code for the 2.4 kernel too?
>
> Most of the 2.4 code has indeed been deleted *from current kernels*.
> It's not clear to me why 2.4 documentation should be immune to that same
> process.  If we keep every 20-year-old reference, our docs will be even
> cruftier and less useful than they are now.

Hi,

the documentation of a kernel should document that kernel.

Now, we have a perfectly fine tool named "git" which allows
for metadocumentation. May I suggest that you respin the patch
and include a link to the old stuff, which somebody has been
nice enough to find, in the change log?

	Regards
		Oliver